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Friday, May 22, 2009
Games

Queen Elizabeth Is Getting a Gold-Plated Wii

8:40AM Sean Fallon | Not to be outdone by Barack Obama, THQ has sent off a golden Nintendo Wii to Buckingham Palace where the queen will likely receive it and think it’s a humidor or something. More »
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Music

Old School Computer Band Rocks Bohemian Rhapsody (Poorly)

12:00AM Jack Loftus | I can’t think of a more old school, geeky tribute to Queen than a band comprised of an Atari 800XL, 8-inch floppy disk, 3.5-in hard drive and HP Scanjet 3C. If only it sounded better. More »
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Gadgets

Queen of England Buying the World’s Largest Wind Turbine

11:00AM Sean Fallon | We don’t know how much it cost her, but word is that the Queen of England has put down some mega-bucks to buy the world’s largest wind turbine. The 10-megawatt monster machine built by Clipper Windpower of Carpinteria, California will have a wingspan larger than two soccer fields and will stand 574 feet tall when completed. The windmill is expected to displace two million barrels of oil as well as 724,000 tons of CO2 over its lifetime. It will also serve as the flagship for Clipper’s Britannia Project, an effort to produce massive new turbines on deep-sea floating platforms. If all goes as planned, the Queen’s windmill will light up thousands of British homes starting in 2012. [CNN]
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